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For the Survey Show my objects will be trees. I see the show as an opportunity to get away from the mess of art objects accumulated in boxes, and to reclaim a sense of space that has been lacking lately. I want to travel lightly, so I will be bringing text, pins, labels, a…

for The Survey Show I am making Back-blp, 2014, composed of blps that visitors are encouraged to wear around the Gallery space. Back-blp is a mixture of Richard Artschwager’s blps and Daniel Buren’s Sandwich Men, both works that originated in the late 1960s (though Artschwager continued to make and locate blps randomly around the place – you can see 3…

‘The soil we must care for as we care for our lives’ Alex Miller When I work with the ideas of mortality and the grotesque I am reminded of my own impermanence, fear of death and existence. My life as an extravagant formed ornament that maybe beautiful or misshapen, awareness of connecting with ones self…

The Seeder Glitch replicates the natural process whereby a weed ‘throws’ it’s seeds to propagate. When weeds are sprayed with chemicals designed to eradicate them, often they are coloured pink by the dye in the spray in order to track their obliteration. Some weeds are harder to kill than others, some weeds are Round-Up…

For The Survey Show Sarah Breen Lovett plans Here and Now 2014. Here and Now invites the viewer to sit in a comfy chair and stare at a framed part of the forest. Rather than see the frame as a portal to another world, it is tested as an amplification tool of the place that one…

For The Survey Show, Bettina Bruder plans Disordered zero point of Clandulla State Forest 2014. This work consists of a battery-powered rotation motor from an-off-the-shelf tinkering-and-assembly set. The turning motor is placed on the ground. Parallel references to longitudes and latidudes in the area are marked by shuffled walking paths on the ground. In a geometrical approximation process the geographical…